This is a collection of papers by numerous critics on different aspects of Shaw's play.

Briggs, Asa. A Social History of England, Weidenfeld and Nicolson (London), 1994.

A study of English society from antiquity to the present, tins books contains a lengthy chapter on the Victorian and early Edwardian eras.

Gainor, J. Ellen Shaw's Daughters: Dramatic and Narrative Constructions of Gender, University of Michigan Press, 1991 This is a study of women in Shaw's plays, focusing on the conception of womanhood in Victorian culture and the Image of the daughter in Shaw's plays.